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Aug 15, 2013 at 9:38 PM

Freske headed to Lawrence Tech

Brandon Watson

Derrick Freske of Sturgis wasn’t looking to continue his bowling career into college at first.

After deciding on attending Lawrence Tech in Southfield, a suburb of Detroit, his first passion was school. Freske held a 3.909 GPA as a high schooler in Sturgis and knew he wanted to be successful in college as well.

“I will be studying architecture and this is one on the top-rated schools for this program,” Freske said.

It just so happens that the Blue Devils have a bowling program as well. Freske was part of the state championship clinching Trojan team from this past winter.

“The bowling team also attracted me because I wanted to keep doing that if I could,” he said. “Once I found out they had a bowling team I thought that was nice.”

Freske improved his average this year by nearly 20 pins. He said becoming more accurate in picking up spares will help him at the college level.

And in winning Sturgis’ first state championship since the 1999 baseball team, Freske said the bowling program has solidified themselves in just two seasons.

“It’s nice to know that we were the first team to win a state title since 1999,” he said. “We are part of school history now in only the second year of the program. I think we left standards and people will now be able to see that in our program.”

During high school Freske had an average of 193 while in league play sported an average of 202.